Adnate

1. a. Growing with one side adherent to a stem; — a term applied to the lateral zooids of corals and other compound animals.
2. a. Grown to congenitally.
3. a. Growing together; — said only of organic cohesion of unlike parts.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.